Fer Crine Ott Lodd

The title comes from my rendering of what a medical office person with the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania area dialect said when struggling with her non-responsive tablet. It actually bears no connection to the rest of this post, but I hate to waste anything. Instead I wanted to write about quotations I often heard when I workedContinue reading “Fer Crine Ott Lodd”

I Like Your Ensemble!

These ads for mobile games (that appear while I play other mobile games) continue to march across my screen. Most of them are lame or unwatchable, a few are utterly fascinating and confounding (how do I get an AI GF to be an effective dominatrix? I’m not making an in-app purchase to find out!), andContinue reading “I Like Your Ensemble!”

My, How Ads Have Changed

When I think back to ads from an earlier time, they were pretty innocent. They may have flirted slightly with actions and language that, if you had a dirty enough mind, you would have said, “Whoa!” But for the most part, commercials reflected an attitude of a simpler time. For example, I think of Charmin,Continue reading “My, How Ads Have Changed”

Open for Business

If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell? When I was a kid I loved watching the TV show Dark Shadows. As an adult, I found the bloopers on YouTube and howled (like Quentin the werewolf!) with laughter. One of the funniest things happened as someone entered a shop andContinue reading “Open for Business”